Personal Perspective (continued)
Centrality of Commitment to coordinated behavior
- Both long- and short-term coordination can be viewed in terms of commitments that have varying duration and specificity.
Layered Control
- Modulationóhigher layers providing constraints (policies) to lower levels that modulate (circumscribe) their control decisions
- Bi-directional Interaction(negotiation) among Layers ó Though constraints flow down the layers, information that flows in the other direction allows these constraints to be modified in case they canít be met or they lead to inappropriate behavior